Victory doesn’t always come in the form of a winning on-field goal or a walk-off home run. Sometimes, victory is just as simple as a phone number after a long night out on the town. This October, sportlifestyle brand, PUMA®, salutes these special competitive moments with the launch of The PUMA Social Club LA, the place for the social games we play off the field with friends, when the sun goes down.

From printing workshops to photo classes—Levi’s is about to launch the next round of its “We Are All Workers” extensive campaign, which has been rolling out across the USA since June. For two months, from July 1 through August 28, the brand has been encouraging San Francisco-based creatives to come to one of its dedicated venues and dive into the process of creating unique prints and learning the secrets of the industry. Now, Levi’s is paying tribute to another iconic city of the US, New York, by opening The Levi’s Photo Workshop to  educate local emerging artists as well as collaborate with them.

Starbucks announced the results of its Vote, Give, Grow in-store donation program. Hike for KaTREEna, a non-profit organization whose aim is to replant trees that were lost during the disaster, received the greatest number of votes, which entitles it to the top-valued $50,000 grant. Two other local organizations, Young Leadership Council, which engages young professionals in community projects, and KaBOOM!, whose mission is to create play spaces within walking distance of every child in America, will each receive $25,000 grants.

With only three months left before 2011, global companies are gearing up for creating calendars for the upcoming year. While some brands invite celebrity photographers to shoot and movie stars to be featured in their calendar editions, New Balance Germany decided to crowdsource this job,  inviting creative talents to contribute to the brand’s new SNKRlendar.

Those who spent days and months looking for a dating partner and still can’t find him or her, now have an online tool, which will help them put an end to this tough search and finally select a perfect match. This might seem a bit weird, but the solution comes from… a global automobile manufacturer, Citroën. With a new interactive service, Dating 2.0, users can specify the features a potential partner should have, and after all the preferences being processed, they get a picture of the ideal date standing by the best-matching Citroën DS3.